ZED Mini
ZED Mini is Stereolabs compact stereo depth camera for robotics, AR and spatial computing. It provides depth sensing and motion tracking in a small form factor for 3D mapping and machine perception.
Facts
- Company: Stereolabs
- Product type: Perception Sensor
- Status: Commercial
Market context
ZED Mini is a compact Stereolabs stereo camera for AR, VR and lightweight robotics applications that need depth sensing and tracking.
- Target environment: Robotics, automation and edge-AI systems that need sensing, depth perception, vision processing or local compute.
- Workflow context: Depth sensing, visual perception, edge processing, object detection, tracking and robot awareness.
- Customer context: Robot builders, machine-vision teams, automation engineers and edge-AI developers.
- Deployment model: Commercial or available product positioned for customer use, integration or developer adoption.
- Commercial maturity: Publicly presented as commercial or available, with maturity depending on deployment scale and support coverage.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on accuracy, latency, environmental robustness, SDK quality, compute budget and integration with the robot stack.
- Market position: ZED Mini sits in the perception and compute layer that helps robots understand or process the physical world.
- Adjacent products: ZED cameras, Ouster lidar, Cognex VisionPro, NVIDIA Jetson
Workflow
Depth sensing, visual perception, edge processing, object detection, tracking and robot awareness.
Capability
Depth Sensing, Stereo Vision
Deployment environment
Robotics, automation and edge-AI systems that need sensing, depth perception, vision processing or local compute.
Specifications
- Core Functions: Stereo depth sensing, positional tracking and spatial mapping
- Dimensions: 124.5 x 30.5 x 26.5 mm
- Baseline: 63 mm
- Operating Temperature: 0 C to +45 C
- Video Output: 2K at 15 FPS; 1080p at 30/15 FPS; 720p at 60/30/15 FPS; WVGA at 100 FPS
- Depth Fps: Up to 100 Hz
- Depth Range: 0.1 m to 15 m
- Ideal Depth Range: 0.1 m to 9 m
- Depth Technology: Stereo depth sensing
- Motion Sensors: Accelerometer and gyroscope; 800 Hz data rate
- Pose Update Rate: Up to 100 Hz
- Pose Drift: Translation 1.0%; rotation 0.013 deg/m without loop correction
- Lens: 2.8 mm six-element all-glass dual lens
- Field Of View: 102 deg H x 57 deg V x 118 deg D max
- Weight G: 60 g
- Image Sensors: Dual 4 MP sensors with large 2-micron pixels
- Connector: USB 3.0 Type-C port
- Price Usd: $399 USD
Tags
- Peer Group: Depth Camera, Perception Sensor
- Workflow: Robot Perception, Mobile Robot Navigation
- Capability: Depth Sensing, Stereo Vision
- Stack Layer: Sensing layer
Timeline / Research
- 2026-03-27 - Research Publication - DefOM paper uses ZED Mini RGB-D camera for deformable-object manipulation - DefOM addresses robust deformable-object manipulation through boundary-aware demonstrations and online adap…
- 2026-03-17 - Research Publication - UE5-Forest paper uses ZED Mini data for synthetic-to-real forest traversal - UE5-Forest studies synthetic-to-real sim-to-real transfer for forest traversal using Unreal Engine 5 envir…
- 2026-02-26 - Research Publication - Canterbury tree-branches dataset paper uses ZED Mini for forestry perception data - The paper introduces the Canterbury tree-branches dataset for tree-branch perception research. The…
- 2026-02-25 - Research Publication - Balanced active perception paper evaluates robot perception with ZED Mini - The paper proposes balanced active perception for finding target objects in clutter using sensor motion pla…
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